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TO
THE MAUI NEWS, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1911
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Automobile Accessories
Bath Room Fittings
Paint and Varnish Brushes
Batteries and Electric Bells
Carriage, Machine and Tire Bolts
Door Hinges and Butts
Carbide
"Hand and Brest Ratchet Drills
Gas Machines and Gaslight Fixtures
Iron and Steel Bars, fiat and round
Step Ladders
Door Locks and Padlocks
White Lead and Red Lead -
Paint Oils
Lubricating Oils
Honolulu Newsletter.
Continued from Page I,
which the familiar three ciphers
appear. Ho is familiar, also, with
the hard hearteclness of trustees of
estates, bo that when the trustees
of Miss Cainphell put down their
collective foot and said "No" it
did not feaze him. The matter is
to he threshed out in court next
Saturday. Personally I feel that
the petitioner should wait until she
has a husband to support before
making such a demand,
The other day an afternoon news
paper published some facts concern
ing Miss Prescott, the elderly lady
who edits the Times, a monthly
sheet in Honolulu. It had to do
with her mental, physical and
financial condition and stated what
developed to bo cold facts. Within
twenty-four hours the newspaper
men of the city, from the editors
and managers to the wee dovilSj
had put in their respective bit and
one of the craft paid a visit to a
number of merchants with the re
sult that Miss Prescott can stand at
the door and smilo at tho wolf. She
will bo beyond want for tho balance
of hor life. This goes to show that
tho people of Honolulu aro always
KAHULUi STORE
IMPORTERS and WHOLESALE
DEALERS IN
General Merchandise,
ion
We beg to advise that we have arranged to take over several
of the lines of goods now handled by the KAHULUI RAILROAD
CO. As we are also carrying a considerable supply of similar goods,
our stock on hand will be increased to an extent larger than desirable.
Therefore, we have determined TO CUT THE SELLING PRICES
AWAY DOWN LOW in order to dispose of the surplus stock im
mediately. The transfer of stock began March I st. and from that date ;
till the end of the month big reductions in prices will be made on the'
various items listed below:
If you have a house or anything else that needs painting or may:
need painting within six months or so, buy the paints, oils, varnishes
and brushes now.
If you have an Automobile lay in a supply of accessories.
If there is anything in the list you need or may need before long,
BUY IT NOW, you'll never get as low prices again.
Yours very truly,
Kahului Store.
willing to help where help is needed.
This reminds me of the Honolulu
of twenty-Jive years ago when no
man was allowed to go hungry and
of the willingness of tho higher-ups
to help out the man who was down
on his luck. It is of record, here,
possibly it may be indellibly stamp
ed on the memory of tho men con
nected with, tho various acts, that
popular men, men who looked not
wisely upon tho cup that cheers but
whoso good points were too good to
overlook, were on occasions sent for
when they wero known to be broke
and told to got their bills together
for settlement. I knew several cases
of that sort and there may bo others.
Mind you, that was in tho old days,
so do not go broke with tho idea
that tho same men will send for you
and offer to make a settlement for
you.
Yesterday was tho first of the offi
cial investigation into the cause, of
tho wreck of tho Moi Wahino and
an attempt will be made to show
where tho blame belongs. It seems
that the captain of the Kukui was
asleep in his cabin and tho spcond
officer, who should have been on
tho bridge, was in tho pilot houso,
Tho captain says ho was aroused by
Suppli
Wire Cloth and Poultry Netting
Nails and Screws ' - ,
Pliers and Nippers
Copper and Zinc Oilers
Sherwln Williams Paints, Varnishes and
Colors
Sinks and Bathtubs .
Tool Sets .
Wheelbarrows, Iron Trays unci Wbdd
Trays
Sanitary Appliances
Pipe and Monkoy Wrenches j
Auto Wrenches and Tools ;
Screw Drivers
a shock and does not know to this
day what it was. Ho lias informa
tion, howovor, that lie bumped tho
little schooner. Also ho says ho
threw tho search light, saw a green
light and it was too dark to sco tho
sails. All of this in less than two
breaths. Then 'ho says ho heard no
shouting and that Lieutenant Snhm,
who has charge of tho Kukui, was
of tho opinion that they had not
struck anything and if they l.ad it
was such a light tap that tho vessel
had sailed away joyously. Now
what do you make of that? There
is a feeling hero that after tho
inspectors get through with their
investigation the federal grand jury
should take a hold and do a littlo
investigating on its own account.
I read an account recently of tho
visit of a senatorial committee to
the islands which took place about
a dozen years ago. Among the
questions asked in one of tho towns
visited had relation to tho senten
cing of a negro to lifo imprisonment
for stealing a safe on Maui. I be
lieve it was a Maui judge who camo
in for a roast on that occasion. A
littlo further along I camo across a
point in tho investigation mado at
Hilo, About tho only thing "there
that really bothered the investiga
tors was tho prisoners who were
going about with ball and chain
attached to their ankles. A few
hours later tho anklets were taken
off. Sunday I was among tho num
ber who visited tho Industrial
School at Waialeo and saw what
had brought shivers to tho spines pf
the senators who had effected a
reform at tho Hilo jail. Three boys
carrying balls and chains wero
brought to tho railway station, or
rather wero herded with tho rest to
tho station, to reccivo the honorablo
gentlemen who wont out to make
an official call. You can imagine
tho impression left on tho minds of
tho men, tho officials including Su
perintendent Popo defended the
action of tho barbarian who had
riveted tho chains on the boys'
ankles. As wo wero leaving wo re
ceived assuranco that tho chains
would Ihj taken off before tho Iwys
went to bed." My greatest regret
was that mcmlers of tho United
SUites senate, instead of tho local
legislative body, wero not of tho
party.
Thero is nothing new to report in
tho cholera situation. So far as the
outside is concerned tho thing is
over and suspects havo boon turned
Ioopo. It looks as though the Board
and its physicians havo got a half
Nelson hold on tho diseiuso and will
throw it. Tho British cruiser Al-
gcrine arrived today and will bo
kept closn guarded. Nono of the
men will bo allowed to como ashore.
Monday was slap stick day in the
legislature. The most important
killing was tho bill to free tho
Y. M. C. A. from payment of taxes.
Kanchoa's bill relative to tho tax
on billiard tables and Makckau's
regarding license fees for draying
went to tho mat. An important
measure that is to havo attention is
ono relating to Japanese tenements
in tho resident section in beautiful
Honolulu. Tho residents of Makiki
complain that houses arc being
vacated in that district on account
of tho overcrowding Japanese and I
guess there is a good deal of truth
in tho statement. Two years ago
Makiki was the storm center of
agitation against tenements. At
the time a Japanese, who had grad
uated from water boiler in a private
family to cook for the University
Club, had as a side issue a sloro and
a desire to become a landlprd. He
leased a piece of land in tho center
of the district and across the road
from a public school. Then the
citizens, sat up and took notice that
the aforesaid Japanese was building
a tenement. Arid as they watched
the building rose to a second story.
The owner took cognizance of tho
objection and forthwith employed a
lawyer. Perhaps it would bo more
polite to say he retained an attorney
because tho little bit of hiring cost
him nine hundred dollars. He lost
his case and the fee. Then as a
monument to his folly in braving
the wrath of the haoles he allowed
the building to stand a few months
just to look at. But the expense
was great, or the attempt was costly
for in the end ho lost the littlo store
his wife had been keeping and an
automobile he had bought to uso as
a rent machine and finally fell to
cooking in an all night chop house
whero ho did not have anything but
the memory of the good things over
at tho University Club. One would
suppose that the experience of that
young man would bo enough to
deter others but it seem not and
what is to como will probably prove
as profitable to tho attorneys as tho
last one.
Disaster seems to have overtaken
tho firm of Oat and Mossman who
some years ago succeeded John
Sopor in his Merchant Street store.
I think it was Oat who started tho
stationery business in tho store that
was closed yesterday but it is so
many years ago that I have forgot
ten. I know Mort mado a good
thing out of it and would havo con
tinued to do so but he was prevailed
upon a number of years ago to sell
out and try his fortune at the coast.
Tho fortune, I guess, was negative
for he came back settled down as a
clerk for tho man to whom he had
sold his nice littlo business and
subsequently secured the postmaster
ship. After that ho, with his old
friend Mossman bought out Soper,
whoso Hawaiian News Company
store ho had in tho same place
Now it looks as though Mort is
down and out. It seems to a num
ber of prominent men that as good
a citizen as ho has been an extension
should bo given and tho firm put
on its feet. Ho has been too long
in Honolulu and is too popular in
tho business community to bo kept
down. Mossman, I guess has been
in tho store for thirty or moro years.
Tho Stock market has been ex
tremely dull during tho past week
and nono of tho brokers has mado
anything. Yesterday's sales on tho
Honolulu exchange amounted to
ten Waialua at 8102.50. Thirty
Oahu at 8'-7.S7r at tho session and
ten Hawaiian Sugar at 10 and
81,000 O. It. & L. to bet.veen
Iwards. Tho interest in Honolulu
Consolidated oil keeps up though I
am Informed a bear movement is
contemplated, Tho shares aro a
shade lower than usual but there
has been no sale. It will probably
go lower and then thero will bo a
jump. It is said, and it has been
wild before, that Captain Matson
has an offer for some of his land1 at'
a very likely figure and if ho eon
eludes to sell tho shareholders will
get a dividend of a dollar a stiaro
directly the settlement is mado;
This may have something to do with
tho holding on by tho men who own
itock.
Lahaina Notes.
Post office inspector Hare of Ho
nolulu was the guest Of Postmaster
Waal last week. .
Anton Pimento is seriously ill at
Kaanapali. Mrs. Annie E. Mulvany
and other friends havo visited him.
Friends of Miss Mary Andrado
have been notified that sho is ill at
Makawao Seminary. J
Last Saturday morning at Holy
Innocents Church, Ah Gick and
Maggie Lum Lung wero united in
marriage, tho Ilov. J. Knox Bodel
officiating.
Major Samuel W. Dunning in-
spected Company L. last Sunday.
Tho Company turned out with full
ranks, and passed a very satisfactory
inspection. The date of the annual
encampment oii Oahu has not been
announced, on account of tho cholera
in Honolulu.
T?nv. Collins Burnham was assign
ed a prominent part in tho meetings''
at Kahului. Mrs. L. K. Kaawena
olo was chosen delegate of tho Wai-
nee church and Sunday school. Mrs.
R. K. Hoopii and Mrs. It. K. Ben
jamin were delegates from the Chris
tian Endeavor Society. '
Tho temperature at 7 a. m. on
Tuesday was 62.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred N. Haysel-
den wero in Alabama at lastjac-t,
counts. CJi'
After the Wednesday evening ser
vice in Holy Innocents' Church, tho
congregation wjis requested tojas-,
semble in the Parish Hall. Inlvvell
chosen remarks the Rev. J.tKnox
Bodel presented an elegant tudy
lamp to the clergyman who for tho ' ,
last ten years has been on duty -in ,
the Mission.
Thrifty Scot Gets
A Clean Shave.
A. W. Stewart, a member of the
Shanghai police force, who arrived
recently on the liner Asia, was told
by his fellow passengers that tho
United States government exacted
an import tax on mustaches.
Stewart, who is on his way homo
to Scotland on furlough, was tho
proud possessor jf as cute a littlo
mustache as over adorned tho upper
lip of a British bobby, but he de
clined to allow his pride to interfere
with the exercise of tho thrift that
ho' regarded as his birthright.
When ho answered to his name
in tho Asia's saloon when the doctor
boarded her there was only a tiny
patch of untanned skin to show
whero tho mustache had been.
''Hello Stewart, I didn't know
you.-" a fellow passenger said.
".What's happened to your mus
tache?" "Yo ken right weel what's come
of it," tho Scot replied. "It's no
tho money I mind. It's pur-r-cly
a matter o' principle wi' mo. -And,
losh gosh, man, I'll ha' anither just
as guid in twa'r three weeks. This'
is a ver-r-ry peculiar countr-r-ry."
As Stewart stands six-feet in his
stockings and weighs about 200
pounds not ono of the practiced jokers
dared tell him the truth. '
New Bowling Alleys
Opened at Puunene.
Tho Puuneno Athletic Club has
again uphold its reputation for do
ing things well. The latest exploit
to bo added to their fame isl'tho -equipment
of tho new bowling alleys:
Thcso alleys aro models of beauty
and efficiency in every detail. Mr.
Savage, tho new carpenter, who is
responsible for tho completion, of
tho alloys is to bo complimented on
his work and tho club members on
a most beneficial and beautiful
acquisition to their plant.
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